21 Point System For Evaluating Your Invention

Many of us have ideas about what we can create. A product, or idea that we think is brilliant. Most of these ideas stop at the idea stage, as most people don't have the drive to continue forward with anything more than just the idea. Some decide that they love the idea enough to start taking steps to see it become a reality. The same people that actually go out and try to get rid of stomach fat when they decide that their New Year's resolution is to lose weight.

So...where do you start when you have a new idea/invention? First, you have to look into all aspects of the idea just to see if it has any legs. Entrepreneur.com has come up with a nice little system to help you get off on the right foot. Take a look at this 21 Point Invention Evaluation System and see where you stand.

Twitter Undignified?

Reading a recent article about how Ricky Gervais (He's a comedian, and starred on the ORIGINAL "The Office" on BBC.) said he thinks Twitter, and Tweeting is pointless it made me think about how, or why businesses use it at all as a way to talk with customers.

Gervais called the site being used by adults to be "Undignified". A total waste of time when you have many other ways to communicate, and more clearly.

While my own personal opinion on Twitter is very close to that of Mr. Gervais, am I missing the point from a business perspective? Clearly a lot of people use Twitter, and where there are a lot of people, there are a a lot of potential customers, readers, people to scam (whoops did I just say that?)...

While I can see the benefit of using it for certain business ventures, such as websites, communities, bands, celebs, posting torrents, etc. does it really have much value for a real world brick and mortar shop with tangible products?

That depends I suppose. I don't think that General Motors should be Tweeting. It WOULD be undignified for them to do such a thing in my humble opinion. What about someone who sells an all natural fat burner? Clearly this would be part of their target audience wouldn't it? People that care about appearances?

Twitter seems more or less like entertainment, but for business it is a way to mass market for absolutely free, to a ton of people that don't have anything better to do than slop up spam :D. Twitter is the easiest way today to SPAM. Bar None.

10 Emerging Financial Destinations

With the world financial markets in a free fall for the last decade it seems almost, things are starting to change at the top. New York and London being the big financial centers may be taking a bit of a turn as new markets start to emerge.

You can still get cheap hotels in orlando if you were worried about them making the list, but a few new ones are starting to creep up that you may have heard of before.

Of course, New York, London and other leaders aren't going away anytime soon. But as Western power declines, banks could increasingly favor Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, say, for their operations and investments.

These are in no particular order it appears, but here are 10 emerging financial centers.

9 Businesses You Can Start From Home

Who really wants to go to work everyday anymore? I know I don't. Other than getting something like health insurance, or even a 401 (k) you can probably do just as well at home. If not better. Doing less work, dealing with less people that annoy you, and answering to no one except your spouse :).

OK...that sounds like a sales pitch, but I completely believe it, and I have nothing to sell. It is simply food for thought. The way the world is now it is almost a certainty that you can't keep a job for more than 5 years in the same place. It changes too fast. You don't have to be going through a disability appeal, or be stuck at home to add to your income.

Even if you want to keep your job there are ways to add a few hundred dollars to your income by doing little to nothing with a bit of research.

Anyways, take a look at the businesses Inc.com says you can start from home.